The Art of Balance Series

with Danielle Giovonone

Fridays | 6:30–8:00pm Drop-in: $45 | Full 4-Part Series: $160

Change Your Mind About Balance

The Art of Balance workshops are designed to change your mind about balancing on your hands, head, and forearms.

Arm balances invite us to connect more deeply with our bodies — building trust, overcoming fear, and embracing playful challenge.

They offer an exciting way to add strength and refinement to your practice. These instructional workshops break down the mechanics of each pose, focusing on alignment and technique. You’ll learn step-by-step ways to enter each pose, creative transitions and modifications, and how to use props to make arm balances more accessible. Arm balances are progressive by nature — one pose often becomes the foundation for the next.

Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create.

No arm balance experience is required.

This series welcomes beginners and experienced yogis alike who are thirsty for knowledge and ready to challenge themselves.

Join for one workshop or come for the whole series — each class stands on its own, and together they build a complete arm balance journey.

The Series

September 18 | Funky Flying Dolphin & Pincha Mayurasana

Forearm balances are challenging — but shift your mind in the approach, and you can shift your weight onto your forearms. Learn to strengthen and engage the back and shoulder muscles to create lightness on your forearms, while maintaining engagement through the core, glutes, and hamstrings to float the legs. Explore the importance of pelvic stability as you play with movement, balancing on one hand and one forearm at once. We’ll experiment with blocks to help access these poses while refining alignment and building strength through the shoulder girdle.

October 30 | Ganda Bherundasana (Chin Stand)

Demystify Ganda Bherundasana, exploring techniques to build strength in the shoulders, chest, and upper back.  Move through targeted backbend drills to increase spinal mobility and flexibility, while using active leg engagement to lift and balance. Discover how core engagement creates control and lightness, allowing your chin to simply “kiss” the mat. Blocks will provide alignment feedback, create a stronger foundation, and help develop the shoulder strength and stability the pose requires.

November 20 | Headstand

Turn your world upside down, and you just might see more clearly. Build strength in the shoulders, back, and arms to support your head and neck while balancing upside down. You’ll be introduced to different ways of entering the pose and how to come out using core strength, along with strength-building exercises for the shoulders and core that lift you away from the mat and take pressure off the head and neck.

December 11 | The Koundinyasanas (EPK I & EPK II)

Balancing on your arms while your legs extend in opposite directions may seem impossible — with the right mechanics, it isn’t. We’ll break down Eka Pada Koundinyasana I & II, exploring the biomechanics behind each pose: how deep core engagement works with the shoulders, arms, and back to create stability, and how hip rotation and pelvic positioning establish a strong foundation. Focus on lifting and extending the legs with control, creating the feeling of floating like a seesaw on your arms. Blocks will help refine alignment, build confidence, and develop the strength and body awareness these poses ask for.

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